The link between Spherical Cow and Schrödinger's Cat was "A spherical cow is a theoretical thought experiment, and so is Schrödinger's Cat." The link between Schrödinger's Cat and the new name must be different than that link, and different from any other previous link.

General links automatically rejected General links such as "is a word" or "is a location", while technically within the scope of the rules, will most certainly be rejected by the Fedora Board. Remember, the goal is to come up with a creative link to Schrödinger's Cat. The following links will also likely be rejected:

Names of living people

Well-known trademarks

Please try to find a truly original and obscure link!

Naming Schedule

Name collection: May 15 - May 22

List to Fedora Board for review: May 22 - May 29

Legal Review of Board approved names: May 29 - June 05

Community vote on final name: June 08 - June 15

Name announced: Before June 22

Name Suggestions

Please read carefully. The instructions below will help prevent some suggestions from being eliminated early.

How to use this table

Come up with a name idea. Put the name in the first column.

Determine whether it passes the "is-a" test. You must be able to truthfully complete the sentence "Schrödinger's Cat is a <...>, and so is <YOUR_NAME>." The link to the new name cannot be the same as the link from Spherical Cow to Schrödinger's Cat, nor any other previous link. Mark the link in the appropriate column, such as "type of chemical reaction," "deep-sea organism."

Don't choose obvious links, because they usually result in uninteresting names.

Don't choose very general names or unclear links.

Don't choose names of living people, or well-known trademarks.

Do choose obscure links to interesting things, which makes for a better name.

Do avoid all previous links wherever possible.

Do make sure there are at least a couple of ways to link out of the new name to the next name -- and they must be unique too!

Use Google to search for possible trademark collisions. First search for the term itself along with "+software", and then broaden your search to include "+computer", "+hardware", "+technology", "+IT", and so on. Do not skimp on this step.

If you find a collision, it is best to find another name. Names that cause collisions will be eliminated by Red Hat's Legal department and thus waste their time, which is a valuable commodity for Fedora. Help us maximize their effectiveness by weeding out names that are trademarks of other entities, especially those in the IT industry.

If the collision is outside the IT/computing market, you can still submit the name but you should note the collision in the "Tested" column, and include a link to the site where the collision was found.

If you find no collisions, make that notation in the "Tested" column.

Do not mark the themeable column. This is reserved for the Fedora design team, who will be creating the theme.

Do not mark the approval columns. These are reserved for the approval authorities such as the Board and Red Hat Legal.

Suggestion Table

Name

"Is a..."

Tested

Initial Approval

Comments

Themeable

Board Approved

Legal Approved !

Black Widow

Schrödinger's cat is an animal associated with death and so is a black widow.

Collision with BlackWidow by SoftByte Labs, a web-site scanner (see http://sbl.net/ - no warranty for links), and a joystick by Speedlink.

fail

Conflicts with existing software projects/companies

Blue Moon

Schrödinger's cat is a rarely observed phenomenon which has been described in a work published in 1935 and so is the blue moon.

Collisions are the famous song, bluemoon software (http://www.bluemoon.com/) and Blue Moon Technologies (http://www.bmtweb.com), but because of the general meaning of the word and its good themeability I suggest it nevertheless. Might have to see what the legal department says. No warranty for links.

fail

Conflicts with existing software projects/companies

Catarina

Schrödinger's Cat is the cat of a famous person, and so is Catarina.

Yes

fail

Conflicts with an existing software project

Catarina was Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story The Black Cat.

Schrödinger's cat is an edible object with thirteen characters and so is Châteaubriand.

Yes.

Link is tenuous at best. Need to revisit.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaubriand_steak A problem with Chateaubriand is clearly themeability. Instead of using the actual food, it is advisable to visualize Château de Combourg (where François-René de Chateaubriand spent his childhood) and its scenic surroundings as can be seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Combourg.jpg or his historical circumstances (he was directly involved with Napoleon, Louis XVIII and Romanticism in French literature). No warranty for links.

Cherry Ice Cream

Schrödinger's cat is food [for the mind] and so is cherry ice cream [for the soul].

Yes.

pass

Despite of being food, this should be themeable: Imagine a sundae on a table with a parasol in a European street cafe in mild blue colours with a salient red cherry on top.

Deep Sea Lab

Schrödinger's cat is a scientific tool to explore a hidden area of this world and so is a deep sea lab.

Yes.

pass

"Is a" link is somewhat strange

Should match Fedora's blue palette rather well with tons of interesting things to visualize: Corals, the lab itself, divers, fishes, whales, sunken ships, air bubbles and so on.

In the many-worlds interpretation of the "Schrödinger's cat" paradox, every event is a branch point. The cat is both alive and dead, but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different branches of the universe.

Lateral

Schrödinger's Cat was in a box, lateral thinking is "out of the box".

fail

Fails the "is a" test

Glados Cake

Schrödinger's Cat was a science discussion that could not be proven or disproven, Glados Cake is a Science Fiction / Video Gaming object which has not been proven or disproven to date.

The obvious collision is that GLaDOS, the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, is a fictional AI from the Valve games Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011) and the cake is a main story element referred to in both games.

Need to revisit

Golan Heights

Schrödinger's Cat is a superposition of states, so are the Golan Heights.

"Is a" link is weak due to reliance on double entendre; highly political

Heisenbug

Schrödinger's Cat is a paradox where the object changes state when studied, and so is a Heisenbug.

Schrödinger's Cat is a thought experiment , so is the Brownian ratchet

fail

Thought experiment was the F18-F19 link and cannot be reused.

fail

"Is a" link already used in Fedora 19

−

Jesse James

Schrödinger's Cat is something that was wanted, whether dead or alive. So was Jesse James

fail

Conflicts with existing software projects/companies, numerous living people

Virus

Schrödinger's Cat is neither alive nor dead. Neither are virii.

fail

Conflicts with an existing video game; relation to malware makes it undesirable for an operating system

Tilted ball

Schrödingers cat is related to a situation, which cannot be determined and so is Tilted ball.

fail

Fails the "is a" test -- what "tilted ball" refers to is unclear

Hulk

The life of Schrödinger's Cat is deeply affected by potential radioactive decay. So was Bruce Banner's.

Collision with comic strip, movies, video games and TV series.

fail

Conflicts with existing games and other media

Big Whoop

Schrödinger's cat is a famous, influential thing of deep power and immense value and so is big whoop.

A treasure in the game Monkey Island was named Big Whoop.

fail

Conflicts with an existing software company

Superego

Schrödinger's Cat is a theoretical concept from a Vienna native, as is the superego.

pass

Österreich

Schrödinger's Cat has an o umlaut, so does Österreich

"Is a" link okay; need someone with German fluency to check for conflicts

Österreich ist the german name for the country "Austria". This could never be patented. Surely it is part of many company's names, like AT&T contains "America". I do not see any patent danger. At your command: There is a newspaper called Österreich published by "Mediengruppe „Österreich“ GmbH", "Österreich" and "von Österreich" are Austrian surnames, some companies have it in their name, e.g. "Firma Schulz Österreich GmbH", "Architekten Österreich Immobilien Österreich Bauträger Firmenrepräsentanz Österreich OEC ZT GmbH" and "Alto Österreich Gmbh" - all medium sized businesses, not too much in the IT sector as far as I can see.

Prometheus

Schrödinger's cat is a conscious being that brought great insight to humanity as is Prometheus.

Schrödinger's Cat is a theoretical physics concept, and so is eigenstate.

As an eigenstate represents a moving particle in an instant of time, so Fedora 20 is a snapshot of a dynamic distribution.

The Cloud

{Schrödinger's cat, The Cloud} is an oft-misunderstood concept.

Quantum Suicide

Schrödinger's Cat is an evil plan to activate an infernal weapon based on a physical property deliberately jeopardizing the life of a mammal to illustrate a physical ramification and so is Quantum Suicide which "kills" a scientist, not a cat, with a cannon, not poison gas, based on the spin value of protons, not radioactive decay, in order to illustrate the difference between the Copenhagen interpretation and the many-worlds interpretation, not superposition transferred to a macroscopic scale.

Yes. But: This link is close to the thought experiment link used in F18-19, even though much more elaborate and it stays in quantum mechanics. Taking that into consideration, I still chose to suggest it, because the name is cool, unique and allows for abstract artwork, but be aware of those aspects. The name could also be altered to Quantum Immortality, which is almost the same concept (see Wikipedia).

Quark

{Schrödinger's cat, Quark} is a concept pertaining to quantum mechanics.

Already the name of a software company ( quarkxpress )

Amiable Zombie

Schrödinger's Cat is dead and alive at the same time, and so is Amiable Zombie.

Chiral Compound

Schrödinger's Cat is a theory about two opposite outcomes belonging to the same entity, and so are chiral compounds

Secret Alien Artifact

Schrödinger's cat is an instance of high technical sophistication and so is a secret alien artifact.

Yes.

Infinite Monkey

Schrödinger's Cat is an animal theoretically mistreated by scientists, and so is Infinite Monkey.